Click on images to enlarge Skinner Organ Co. Studio 677 Fifth Avenue at 53rd Street New York, N.Y. 10022 Ernest M. Skinner maintained a luxurious showroom on the fourth floor of the Cammeyer Building, directly across Fifth Avenue from St. Thomas Church and its famous Skinner organ. The studio, which opened in April 1922, included a three-manual organ with player attachment. Beginning in March 1923, experimental organ concerts were broadcast over radio station WEAF of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Arthur Hudson Marks performed the first concert, presumably from rolls, and was followed on succeeding Sunday nights by Henry F. Seibert, W.A. Goldsworthy, G.H. Federlein, Lynnwood Farnam, William E. Zeuch, Chardler Goldthwaite, and Maurice Garabrant. Organ selections included familiar classics such as Handel's "Largo", "The Rosary", "Prize Song" from Die Meistersinger by Wagner, and "Onward Christian Soldiers". Marks and Skinner were not entirely satisfied with the sound of the Skinner organ over the radio, but worked with engineers to capture the organ's dynamic range more successfully. From November 6, 1925 to July of 1926, radio station WAGH of New York arranged to broadcast a series of weekly one-hour recitals from the Skinner Organ Studio, as performed by a large number of distinguished organists. The broadcasts reached a huge number of listeners from as far away as Kansas, Cuba, and Gravenhurst, Ontario, Canada. The Skinner Company provided a room and bath in the building for visiting organists and other guests.               Skinner Organ Co. Boston, Mass. – Opus 349 (1922) Electro-pneumatic key and stop action Automatic roll-player 3 manuals, 76 stops, 40 ranks, 2,749 pipes                 Great Organ (Manual I) – 61 notes, enclosed 8   Diapason 73 8   Tuba 73 8   Cello 73 8   Corno d'Amour 73 8   Voix Celeste II ranks 146 8   English Horn 73 8   Concert Flute 73 8   French Horn 73 8   Chimney Flute 73 8   Oboe 73 4   Flute 73 8   Vox Humana 73 2 2/3   Nazard 61   Chimes 20 tubes 2   Piccolo 61   Tremulant   16   Bassoon 73                       Swell Organ (Manual II) – 61 notes, enclosed 16   Bourdon 73 4   Octave 73 8   Diapason 73 4   Unda Maris II ranks 146 8   Voix Celeste II ranks 146 4   Flute 73 8   Unda Maris II ranks 146   Solo Mixture III ranks 183 8   Aeoline 73 8   Cornopean 73 8   Clarabella 73 8   Vox Humana 73 8   Gedeckt 73 8   Harp 61 bars 8   Flute Celeste II ranks 134 4   Celesta 8   Flauto Dolce 73   Tremulant             Solo Organ (Manual III) – 61 notes 16   Bourdon SW 2 2/3   Nazard GT 8   Diapason GT 2   Piccolo GT 8   Diapason SW   Solo Mixture III ranks SW 8   Cello GT 16   Bassoon GT 8   Voix Celeste II ranks GT 8   Tuba GT 8   Voix Celeste II ranks SW 8   Cornopean SW 8   Unda Maris II ranks SW 8   Corno d'Amour GT 8   Aeoline SW 8   English Horn GT 8   Concert Flute GT 8   French Horn GT 8   Chimney Flute GT 8   Oboe GT 8   Clarabella SW 8   Vox Humana GT 8   Gedeckt SW 8   Vox Humana SW 8   Flute Celeste II ranks SW 8   Chimes GT 8   Flauto Dolce SW 8   Harp SW 4   Octave SW 4   Celesta SW 4   Unda Maris II ranks SW   Tremulant [GT]   4   Flute GT   Tremulant [SW]   4   Flute SW                   Pedal Organ – 32 notes 16   Gamba 32 8   Gedeckt [ext.] 12 16   Bourdon 32 8   Still Gedeckt SW 16   Echo Lieblich SW 16   Trombone 32 8   Cello [ext.] 12 16   Bassoon GT 8   Bass Flute [Concert Fl.] GT 8   Tromba [ext.] 12               Sources:      Aeolian-Skinner Archives: http://aeolian-skinner.110mb.com/      The American Organist, Vol. 10-8, courtesy Jonathan Bowen.      Holden, Dorothy. The Life and Work of Ernest M. Skinner. Richmond: The Organ Historical Society, 1987. Photo of console from Skinner Organ Co. Residential Organ advertising booklet, courtesy Barbara Owen.      Kinzey, Allen, and Sand Lawn, comps. E.M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List. New Rev. Ed. Richmond: The Organ Historical Society, 1997.      "Stop, Open and Reed – a Periodical Presentation of Pipe Organ Progress". Boston: Skinner Organ Company, 1922-1927. Photos:      Owen, Barbara: Skinner Organ, Op. 349 (1922).      "Stop, Open and Reed – a Periodical Presentation of Pipe Organ Progress": Studio interior.               | NYC AGO Home Page | Back to NYC Organs List |